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Quant LetterNo. 1

May 2023, Week 4

141 items across 11 sections, as sent to readers on 24 May 2023. Paper titles open their ML-Quant page; ↗ goes to the source.

arXiv

Quantitative-finance and ML-for-finance preprints from arXiv.

32 items

Finance10

Economics8

01

Credit Card Payments

Consumers tend to pay credit card minimums, but an intervention can increase payments.

3 shares8 citations todaySource ↗

Miscellaneous4

01

Responsible AI

Risks of AI in manufacturing explored, with focus on responsible and ethical AI.

3 shares11 citations todaySource ↗

Crypto & Blockchain2

02

Trustless Price Feeds for Crypto

A new report suggests that the use of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry could save up to $100 billion annually by 2025, through improved data management, reduced fraud, and increased efficiency.

11 sharesSource ↗

Historical Trending8

01

Ebacktesting

A new backtesting procedure for Expected Shortfall forecasts is proposed using e-values and e-processes.

95 shares23 citations todaySource ↗

04

Deep Reinforcement Trading Analysis

The performance of model-free deep reinforcement learning traders in a market environment with different mean-reverting factors is investigated.

42 shares7 citations todaySource ↗

06

Reverse optimization formula

An optimization formula is established for Expected Shortfall and generalized to optimized certainty equivalents.

21 shares10 citations todaySource ↗

SSRN

Working papers in finance and economics from SSRN.

13 items

Quantitative3

01

Target Rate Factors

Study on risk associated with uncertainties in central bank monetary policy targets using short interest rate models.

8 sharesSource ↗

03

AI Model Comparison

Literature review comparing large generative AI models and smaller parameter models trained on more data, discussing advantages and limitations.

2 shares2 citations todaySource ↗

Financial10

02

Momentum Strategies in India

An analysis of momentum strategies in India finds that concentrated portfolios offer better factor exposure but carry higher idiosyncratic risk and do not outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.

11 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

03

DAO Disruption

A paper evaluates the suitability of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) for different industries, considering regulatory and industry-specific factors.

9 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

04

Greenhouse Gas Aversion and Optimal Portfolios

The introduction of greenhouse gas aversion into the mean-variance portfolio framework offers a new performance measure for GHG-averse investors and discusses an optimal GHGA-based MVP for the energy sector.

3 sharesSource ↗

RePEc

Economics working papers from RePEc's NEP field reports.

30 items

Finance10

07

Stock Price Formation

Better-performing agents in a multi-agent stock market simulator learn diverse trading strategies and employ a fundamentalist approach.

16 sharesSource ↗

08

Portfolio Optimization

A Reliability-Based Design Optimization framework is developed for portfolio optimization with efficient portfolios obtained for DAX stocks.

14 sharesSource ↗

Statistical2

Machine Learning5

01

SA Stock Market Volatility Prediction

Newspapers-based macroeconomic attention indexes and news sentiment index improve stock market volatility prediction in South Africa, according to a study using machine learning.

20 sharesSource ↗

04

Improved Gaussian Process Mix Model

A bibliometric analysis found that corporate governance, fraud, and financial performance are primary issues in money laundering and financial and economic performance.

12 sharesSource ↗

Deep Learning3

Historical Trending10

01

Smart Beta ETFs

Study finds only two sub-categories of smart beta ETFs outperform traditional cap-weighted market indices.

38 sharesSource ↗

Papers with code

Papers that shipped their code, from the Papers with Code feed (2023-25).

8 items

Trending4

Rising4

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SoundStorm

SoundStorm model for audio generation.

170 shares

02

SpeechGPT

Multimodal language models important for AGI, ChatGPT popular.

117 shares

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ONEPEACE

Building scalable representation model for multiple modalities.

87 shares

04

Tree of Thoughts

Language models limited to token-level decision making.

82 shares

GitHub

Repositories the letter featured.

10 items

Finance5

01

EconML

ALICE uses AI for causal inference in economics.

2,946 shares

03

Pyalgotrading

+ Python programs for quantitative finance.

150 shares

04

FEDOT

AlgoBulls has a Python package for Algorithmic Trading APIs.

526 shares

05

Fairlearn

FEDOT is an automated modeling and ML framework.

1,569 shares

Trending5

News

Industry news: funds, hiring, markets and regulation.

9 items

Quantitative4

Miscellaneous5

Podcasts

Episodes on markets, quant methods and economics.

9 items

Quantitative4

Related5

Blogs

Posts from quant and economics blogs and newsletters.

6 items

Quantitative3

Related3

02

Predicting Stock Returns

Indicator introduced in 2013 to forecast long-term U.S. stock market returns.

1 shares

Videos

Talks, lectures and tutorials.

5 items

Quantitative5

X / Twitter

Posts from quant researchers on X.

10 items

Quantitative5

02

FX Trend Following

FX trend following benefits from adjusting for external balances.

3 shares

05

Fintech Trends: MA and Partnerships

MA and Partnerships: Fintech sectors likely to see deal activity include open banking, neobanks, regtech, paytechs, and currency providers.

1 shares

Miscellaneous5

Reddit

Threads from r/quant, r/algotrading and friends.

9 items

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